Design for Living (1933)

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 1/3/13 at 4:12pm

Good pre-code Lubitsch with Gary Cooper at his handsomest. It was shown on TCM a couple of weeks ago.


Here it is

Updated On: 1/3/13 at 04:12 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/3/13 at 4:47pm

I love Lubitsch! I love this movie! I love Miriam Hopkins! I love Gary Cooper. I love Frederic March too.

I wish it were really the three of them doing Noel Coward's play, but, unfortunately, Ben Hecht removed pretty much all of Coward's dialogue. Coward himself quipped that "Only three of my original lines are left in the film, including 'Pass the mustard.’"

Nevertheless, Hecht's dialogue is pretty witty, and the movie is surprisingly sexy and homoerotic. It's a perfect example of the "Lubitsch Touch"--although I prefer Lubitsch's Design for Living, which I rate as my all-time favorite movie.



Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper. Miriam Hopkins, Frederic March

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/3/13 at 8:37pm

This is not a film I've ever been fond of. About all it has going for it, for me, is the presence of Gary Cooper and Fredric March at the height of their respective beauty. My God -- is there anyone more magnificent than Gary Cooper?

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 1/3/13 at 8:44pm

nope :p

[nmartin]

Posted: 1/3/13 at 8:53pm

Anything with Miriam Hopkins is worth a look and this is worth more than one, as are The Old Maid, Old Acquaintance, and The Story of Temple Drake.

Updated On: 1/3/13 at 08:53 PM